[kelnos]

It's worked well as a honeypot, but I don't think it's working well as a device for paralysis. The executive has seized an alarming amount of power (with the tacit approval of the party in control of the legislature), and the constitution isn't doing much of anything to stop it.

[trimethylpurine]

Sure. But it's amazing that we have a system where he needed the legislature. That's pretty new in the grand scheme.